# morbus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin morbus.

### Noun

morbus (plural morbuses or morbi)
* (medicine, formal) A disease.
** 1838, Thomas Hood, “A Rise at the Father of Angling”, in The Comic Annual, page 47:I thought he were took with the Morbus one day, I did with his nasty angle! For “oh dear,” says he, and burst out in a cry, “oh my gut is all got of a tangle!”
** 1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 214:Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.
** 1979, F. Kraupl Taylor, D. M. K. Taylor, The Concepts of Illness, Disease and Morbus, page 117:Unfortunately, most of the morbi accepted in modern medicine are only taxonomic entities whose causal derivation is merely partially known and therefore polygenic.

#### Related terms

* cholera morbus
* morbus Dupuytren

### Anagrams

* Borums

## Latin
### Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”), the same root of morī (“to die”), with an extension *-bʰo-, possibly *-bʰh₂o- from *bʰeh₂- (“to appear”), and thus meaning “appearing like death”.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔrbʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔrbus]

### Noun

morbus m (genitive morbī); second declension
* (of the body or mind) a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment
    Synonyms: aegritūdō, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, incommodum, infirmitas
    Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
** c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.220:Cur anni tempora morbos adportant?Why do the seasons of the year bring maladies?
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.763–764:‘pelle procul morbōs; valeant hominēsque gregēsque, et valeant vigilēs, prōvida turba, canēs.’‘‘Drive diseases far away; may both men and flocks be healthy, and healthy too the watching dogs, that foreseeing pack.’’ (A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)
* (of the mind) a fault, vice, failing
* (of the mind) Sorrow, grief, distress
* death

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* morbidus
* morbifer
* morbiferus
* morbificō
* Morbōnia
* morbōsus
* Morbōvia

#### Related terms

* morbidē
* morbōsitās

#### Descendants

* Catalan: borm, morb, morma
* English: morbid
* French: morve
* Italian: morbo
* Old Galician-Portuguese: mormo
** Galician: mormo
** Portuguese: mormo
* Piedmontese: mòrb
* Romanian: morb
* Sicilian: morvu
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: muermo
* → German: Morbus
* → Portuguese: morbo (learned)
* → Spanish: morbo (learned)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “morbus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389

### Further reading

* “morbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “morbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* morbus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* morbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. he fell ill: in morbum incidit to be attacked by disease: morbo tentari or corripi to be laid on a bed of sickness: morbo afflīgi to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari the disease gets worse: morbus ingravescit to be carried off by a disease: morbo absūmi (Sall. Iug. 5. 6) to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere) to recruit oneself after a severe illness: e gravi morbo recreari or se colligere to excuse oneself on the score of health: valetudinem (morbum) excusare (Liv. 6. 22. 7) to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi to pretend to be ill: simulare morbum to pretend not to be ill: dissimulare morbum to plead ill-health as an excuse for absence: excusare morbum, valetudinem